Tthe world's strangest sports

Extreme Ironing

Extreme ironing idea originated in England.

Extreme Ironing has nothing to do with the speed or ironing result. Extreme ironing is always performed outside in the fresh air.Ironing board and iron during this competition participants must take with their self.

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Cheese Rolling

Maybe some of you heard about this before, but i think its really strange competition and will put it in my list. 

So an annual event that takes place in England in the last Monday of May at 12:00. Participants of competition climb to the top of the hill and wait for the signal. Then they  roll down the slope cheese and next all participants run after it trying to catch it. At the foot of the hill  necessarily stay  few ambulances and. Anyone who crossed the finish line first and grabbed the cheese gets it as a prize.

Dog surfing
The jury evaluates the performance of dogs on one main criterion - the ability to stay as long as possible on a wave on a surfboard. The main objective of this positive event - to draw public attention to the problems of animals and raise money for charity.

Chess Boxing

Competition consists of 11 rounds, odd rounds - Chess ( more accurately, " speed chess "), even - boxing . Between rounds - pauses for 1 minute. Time control in a chess game - 12 minutes per player. One chess round lasts four minutes , one round of boxing in the original version lasted 2 minutes. Before the World Cup 2007 boxing rounds duration has been increased to 3 minutes , as most of the previous games have been solved at the chessboard .

A competitor may win the match during a boxing round by KO or TKO by the referee, by achieving a checkmate or if the opponent's twelve minutes run out during a chess round, or by the opponent's resignation at any point. If the chess game reaches a stalemate, the scores from the boxing rounds are used to determine the winner. If the boxing score (calculated on a round-by-round basis) is also a draw, the outcome is declared as a tie.

Wife Carrying 

These competitions are held annually in Sonkayarvi - beautiful town in eastern Finland
Rules of the competition are simple:
 On the route there are two "dry" and one water obstacle.
 Minimum weight "load" - 49 kilograms. If a woman weighs less, she should wear a heavy backpack to get the missing kilograms.